Gordon R. Lawrence, CFA

Senior Managing Director at Wellington Management, Portfolio Manager

Background

Gordon R. Lawrence, CFA, is director of the Global Derivatives Group. Gordy leads a team of strategists that work with a wide range of equity, fixed income, and asset allocation portfolio managers. He identifies opportunities for managers to use derivatives as a means of expressing portfolio views, managing risks, and reducing transaction costs across equity, credit, commodity, and currency markets. He also manages and assists in the management of derivatives overlay portfolios, focusing on both hedging and return generation.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2006, Gordy worked as a senior derivatives analyst at Putnam Investments (1999 – 2006). Before that, he worked as an associate in the Fixed Income Derivatives and Debt Capital Markets Groups at Lehman Brothers (1993 – 1997).

Gordy earned his MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago (1999) and his BA, cum laude, from Williams College (1992). Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society Boston.